Bjorn

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    I was irritated when the Spacebase thing happened for a few different reasons, but I got over it.  DF's been around for 15 years and has produced something like 15 or 16 games, most of which I've either liked or loved.  They've been one of the most accessible and open companies in gaming.  Out of all that time, and all those games, we have this one example where they fell down, both in game production and communication.  I can forgive that. 

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    A Psychonauts sequel is a weird proposition to me.  The original is, without a doubt, one of my favorite games of all time.  I've got enough doubts about whether or not they can capture that same lightning in a bottle twice that I'm not sure I want to preemptively fund this.  But, I also have few doubts it will get funded, so I suppose I'll still get to play it anyways.

     

     

    Let's have none of that talk!  After all, Spacebase lead JP LeBreton is excited for his old team's new venture!

     

    Everything I wrote above is a lie and it's obvious that LeBreton's feelings are as raw as Ninety-Three's—probably more.  His life as it was is now in ruins, and in a matter of hours Psychonauts 2 has earned orders of magnitude more than his Patreon has in its entire existence.

     

    Goddam, that's a bummer.  I almost skipped the link and your spoiler and took you at face value. 

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    Home Alone and Elf will be the only Christmas movies I watch for the rest of my life (and maybe some Ernest Saves Christmas every now and again). As much as I like this time of year with the holidays and whatnot, I really really don't like most of the Christmas media out there. Especially Christmas music. 4 1/2 years working at Applebee's drained 4 1/2 lifetimes of my patience for shitty Christmas music. Unless it's the N'Sync Christmas album.

     

    The problem there is shitty Christmas music!

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    Finally, an entire article based on the popular internet phenomenon, "My favourite Christmas movie? Why, it is THIS MOVIE THAT DOESN'T REALLY DEAL WITH CHRISTMAS BUT IS SET AT THAT TIME OF YEAR AND SO TECHNICALLY COUNTS":

     

    http://www.avclub.com/article/have-lethal-gremlins-french-connection-christmas-2-228523

     

    I disagree with the premise that many of those aren't somehow Christmas movies.  What, is there some canonical list of things a movie has to have to be a "real" Christmas movie?  Like Santa or some shit?

     

    Many of the movies on that list feature family, particularly familial loss or drama, at the center of the stories.  And I'm not sure there is something more Christmasy than family, and all the love, pain and drama that comes with it. 

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    Bjorn post incoming...

     

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    I wouldn't mind another conversation simulator, but I would prefer that stuff to be more dynamic or have new dimensions I had to consider as opposed to whatever it is I want to say.  I'm a little worried after the response to DA2 that Bioware isn't willing to do more personal stories and it'll eventually become about saving the universe,  Do people still play ME3's multiplayer?  I got really into it for a while but eventually fell out for various reasons, and I'm looking forward to getting back into that.

     

    The lady and I get nostalgic for it now and again and might play for an evening, but we haven't played regularly most of this year.  Warframe is definitely our new co-op space jam.  That said, if you wanted to play some, feel free to drop me a line and one or both of us would likely be willing to jump in for a few matches.  The last couple of times we played, there were still people playing in public matches, thought not a bunch.  We saw the same handful of people multiple times in an evening, but it was enough to usually have a team of 4. 

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    Somehow I missed a new video for Andromeda was out.
     



    Most noteworthy thing is the likely revelation of the protagonist's name.

     

    Rider/Ryder is briefly visible on a dog tag, likely an homage to Sally Ride as Shepard was an homage to Alan Shepard.

     

    Edited to add: I'm super happy an official video used FemShep as a voiceover rather than ManShep.  FemShep's voicework was always way better anyways. 

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    In Mass Effect 3, it was nearly impossible to predict how Renegade Shepard was going to react based on what you selected.  It's the only one I ever finished on Renegade, so maybe they were all that way.  At first it bugged me how wildly different her reactions to things were, but I eventually came to decide that it was the best way to characterize her.  She was obviously suffering from PTSD, had a billion reasons to be paranoid, had died and been reborn.   Being a completely stable personality would be the least likely outcome after all that. 

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    Do famous people dildos exist too? 

     

    Yep!  Big name porn stars count on merchandising their famous bits as part of their income.  I don't know that the dildos are as big of a seller though.  I suspect it's because women generally watch less porn (because they are rarely the target audience, so porn generally caters to the male sensibilities/eye), and are thus less likely to give a shit about a famous porn stars famous bits. 

     

     

    Those two words go together so beautifully. I think I might shed a tear.

     

    Now I really want to know if there's an Anus Anonymous for people trying to give up butt sex (there probably is and it's probably terribly motivated). 

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    Yep, they literally make a mold of famous people's genitals, anus, boobs, etc.  I've got a buddy who does body casting (not for sex toys, as art pieces), but it's a pretty straight forward process.  Plaster for big body parts, a less rigid molding material for...sensitive/detail oriented parts. 

     

    Celebrity sex toys cost more, but do the same thing, so I don't quite get the attraction to them. 

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    If it's fake, there's at least 2 accounts involved (completely possible, but a hell of a lot of work for a joke).  It's just...holy shit.  I also used to have some people just like this on Facebook (most of whom have either unfriended me or I've unfriended them over time), and this nails the way they type online. 

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    Haha, in the conversation about waiting on Fallout 4 to load, all I could think of was Metal Gear Solid 4's install screens, which were weird but wonderful.  It's just Solid Snake smoking and looking grumpy for like 10 minutes, with the old video game health warnings that would usually be in small print at the beginning of a game manual.

     

     

    Edited to Add: MGS4 also had a choice about how much you wanted to install, you could either do a full install, or you could just do a partial install and at like 4 other points in the game it would ask you to install more stuff if you didn't want to wait any longer than necessary to start playing. 

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    I would really like to buy Majesty: Gold Edition during this sale to relive some fond memories. But I remember someone on this forum said that it was really buggy, or a bad re-release, and that Paradox screwed something up and sadly it isn't worth buying.

     

    Is that true? Does anyone have strong opinions about the re-release of Majesty?

     

    Dewar's right, it was he and I's discussion about Majesty that came up recently.  I consider M1 to be one of the finest games ever made, and have replayed portions of it within the last 2 or 3 years.  Majesty 2 is...eh, it's probably not terrible.  But it failed to deliver on what made the original special (not surprising, as none of the original people were involved with 2 and it was running on an engine not designed to do what 1 did).